Igor Prikhozhai
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Igor Prikhozhai
Sumy, Ukraine

Igor Prikhozhai (1987-2025), also known by his pen name Igor Sirin, was a gifted Ukrainian poet and literary translator. A native of Sumy, Ukraine, he dropped out of university after three years and opened a bookstore in his native city. As a teenager, he discovered Nabokov. He was renowned for his celebrated Russian translations of Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. He joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a volunteer and was killed in action on November 12, 2025.

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by Wayne Pernu

The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.

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by Mikhail Iossel

Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience

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by Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky

Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.

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by Sergei Shabalin

A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.

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